"Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men."
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"The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work."
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"Power and machinery, money and goods, are useful only as they set us free to live."
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"If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute."
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"Paying good wages is not charity at all-it is the best kind of business."
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"I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible."
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"All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance."
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"America is not a land of money but of wealth-not a land of rich people, but of successful workers."
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"People see successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail easily; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is."
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"To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something"
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"Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry."
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"To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense."
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"In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler."
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"A man ought to be able to live on a scale commensurate with the service that he renders."
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"I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world."
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"You can't tell me you can make any system or country work with low wages and high prices, and high wages with high prices don't mean anything when the prices eat up the wages and don't leave anything over."
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"At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child."
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"To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things."
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"If you think you can, or if u think you can't.. Either way ur correct... It's the thinking that makes it so."
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"Every piece of work in the shops moves. Save 10 steps a day for each of the 12,000 employees, and you will have saved 50 miles of wasted motion and misspent energy."
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